<p>I'm currently a junior just returning from a campus visit to williams, and i have fallen in love with the school and williamstown. However, i'm new to this whole admissions process (no older siblings) and don't know if i could get in. I've posted my stats below and would love it if someone told me my chances.</p>
<p>*SAT: 730-V, 730-W, 700-M
*SAT II's: 770 Biology, 750 US History, and 690 Literature (will take some more in the fall)
*GPA: 3.96 unweighted (I wil have taken 11 APs but school doesn't weight)
*Rank: 1 out of 35 (very small, but competitive private school)
*APs: Spanish, Calc AB, Enviro scinece, Bio, US History, Lit, Human Geo, Econ Macro, Econ Micro, Calc BC, Gov, and Eng Lang (plus 4-5 honors)</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
*Varsity soccer (9-12) - captain junior year and probably next year too
*JV Basketball (10)
*Premier Division club soccer (5th-10th) - state champs 2003
*Student Council (11-12)- Junior class prez and student body vice prez
*NHS member (11-12) - Vice prez
*Utah HOBY ambassador (10) - youth leadership conference
*Utah Boys State Ambassador (110 - political leadership/debate deal
*Debate team member (10-12) - team captain 11th and 12th
*State champ oratory (2006), 2nd at region
*region champ extemp (2005), 4th at state
*School won state champ this year (2006)
Took 2nd overall at Southern Utah State science fair (2004)
*qualified for Intel internation science fair
*AP US hist. student of the year (05-06)
*AP Calculus student of the year (05-06)
*Joshua Award winner - most prestigious award at school (for leadership, academic achievement, etc.)
*Founder and leader of ICS Mountaineering club
*Founder and volunteer of Middle school math tutoring program (meet 2x per week)</p>
<p>Community Service:
*1 week colorado work camp (built houses) - 2004
*I've gone to Peru the past two summers with a medical group(2 weeks in in 04 and a month this past summer) - setup day clinics along Amazon
*I'm going to do the same thing in Guatemala this summer for 2 weeks
*Volunteer math tutor for 7th-9th graders (2x a week)
*miscellaneous volunteer work here and there adding up to about 150 hours</p>
<p>I'm also from Utah and an Asian-American. In the viewbook i saw only 1.6% of the current students are from the rockies, so may that might help. By the way i am not mormon.</p>
<p>Definitely apply. I think you have a very strong shot at admission. Your GPA/rank are excellent, and your extracurriculars are diverse, yet substantial enough to demonstrate some real passions. Were I the AdCom, I would be particularly impressed by your accomplishments in athletics, the sciences, and speech. Also, though I may be wrong about this, I do believe that Williams regards Asian-Americans as URMs under their admissions policies, so this will help as well. Your SATs could stand to be a bit higher, but the overall package is great. Good luck.</p>
<p>are you a rising junior or a rising senior? In either case, you look pretty good. As the above person said, the weakest part of your app is your SAT scores, but even those are decent (and I mean decent for CC, which as you know is several hundred points higher than decent in the real world). If you're a junior, you might want to take them again, but maybe not (don't give the college board any more money than you absolutely have to) You should have some great essay topics handy with all the volunteer work and such that you've been doing. Add it and a couple of killer recommendations and you should be pretty good. Good luck!</p>
<p>Williams, and all top colleges for that matter, look at applicants within the context of their schools. That way, you aren't penalized for only taking 3 AP classes in a school that only offers 3 vs. someone who took 10 in a school that offers 20. For example, I'm the only one in a class of 800+ headed to the purple valley next year, and I don't think that either hurt or helped my application. The advantage a small school does have, however, is more chance for one on one time with both teachers and guidance counselors (read: better recs). The Williams admission staff knows this, however, so I don't think they held my guidance counselor's horrific rec against me (there were upwards of 5 typos/spelling mistakes). The short answer: small school, big school, public or private, doesn't make a big difference in the end as long as you show you're capable of Williams' workload.</p>
<p>You certainly do stand a chance at getting in. Nonetheless, every year amazing students are rejected or waitlisted. A very important factor in admissions at Williams is socio-economic diversity. I got into Williams for the Class of 2010, but my stats are nothing in comparison to yours; however, I do have the advantage of coming from an urban/inner city high school. A problem that you might encounter is appearing "identical" to other applicants. Most of the applicants are very well rounded that in the end everybody's application look alike. Definitely use your essay as a way to stand out. Other than that, the only other way that I know of to score extra points in the admissions process is to be a family member of Williams alumni.</p>
<p>Do you think geographic location will help me stand out with only 1.6% of all Williams students coming from the Rockies? What about the fact that I'm a URM?</p>